Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-07-13
POINT, COUNTY DAKpTA WEDNESDAY, JULY ls 1887

Thompson Of Socorro, have been commut-
ed by Gov. Rose to imprisonment for life |
IN the penitentiary nt hard labor.
Iowa weather report for Dune: Tho
mean temperature of the air was 81 degrees
above normal. During the past forty.
eight years, June has but once been az
warm QS4o) and twice only been warmer
still by two degrees, namely, 1865 and 1873.
The number OF hot days was ten, fully
three times the normal number. The
middle decade was hottest, being about
eight degrees above normal; first decade
was 81 degrees above, but the last decade
was cool, being nearly 8 degrees below
normal.
A WASHINGTON telegram says that in
now looks very much as if the Chicago and
Northwestern system were not to lie left
alone in possession of the exclusive privi-
leges it now enjoys in the Black Hills.
Articles Of incorporation of the Lincoln
aud Black Hills railroad were filed with the
secretary of the interior recently, together
with q demand of right Of way over the
public domain. Plats of eleven twenty
mile sections of the road, showing the deti-
mite location Of The road, wero also Gled,
showing that over 225 miles have been sur
veyed and is ready for construction. The
company as incorporated is headed by
George W. Holdredge as president, and
the road is said to be building as a feeder
to the Burlington ond Missouri River, and
| will be leased 10 or controlled fy that road
when completed, as Holdredgs is general
manager of that road, which is part of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy syste y.
A CHICAGO paper claims that the de-
tense in the Doodle trial attempted to pack
the Jury, which was being impaneled and
| that several friends OF the indicted county
| officials slipped in.
The outlook for Wisconsin mill men
| along the Chippewa and its tributaries is
! growing more Iuinous. The light rains of
| the past few weeks have not affected the
rivers. At present there are but 20, 600, 900
feet of logs remaining in the Dells pond,
and no possible way of getting more in,
| though there are millions of logs just out
| of reach. For several weeks even flooding
| the river from the dams has been aban-
! doned, as sufficient volume cannot be had
| at the headquarters. The river seems 10
| be at the lowest stage possible, while sand
| bars meet the eye everywhere. Unless inn
mediate heavy rains occur the result of the
summers work will not be assuring to either
| mill men or mill hands. 1t will take at
| least week of the heaviest rains to affect
the headwaters of the Chippewa.
| Two hundred Irish Americans and other
citizens sat down at st. Paul to a banquet
rendered the other evening to the Earl OF
| Aberdeen, late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
| who was on bis way east from the Pacific
| Coast. In an address of welcome Bishop
| Ireland described the guest as n fine Eng
iisman who rules Ireland for the Irish, and
declared the name of Gladstone would
take its place with O'Connell and Parnell.
The Earl, in replying, declared that such a
demonstration had a peculiar Significance
at this juncture in promoting the success
| of the cause of home rule. ''We must rec
oGnize the fact that n speedy passage OF
home rule depends upon the votes of the
British electors. l do not speak oi
whether home rule is coming, but when il
will be, then the Irish public is dsabused
of its misapprehension as to the operations
of the advocates of home rule